Books written by Sean Cubitt

Timeshift: On Video Culture

Recently the leading Scottish TV and stage dramatist John McGrath wrote: Drama has lostthe quintessential quality of television—that ofbeing an event brought to us asa nation simultaneously. Ten yearsago,I think television dramawas ...
Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies

... Jagalingou people made a formal declaration that they did not consent to the use of their land, in accordance with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, to which Australia is a signatory (McGrath 2015; Milman 2015).
Stella Brennan: 0--10

Stella Brennan: 0--10
Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritiqe from Hollywood to the Mass Image

In this way the sublime, as inexpressible excess, is assimilated into the filth and abjection of the Reavers in Serenity and the motiveless mob that kills Theo's ex-lover Julian in Children. Against that we have the homeliness of ...
The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels

struggle to find an “acceptable” realization of an image is not just the sheer level of work involved, but the way Adams sets the image he has in his mind against that realization, a constant theme in his three great books on ...
Relive: Media Art Histories

Media Art Histories Zhang Ga, Brogan Bunt, Darren Tofts Sean Cubitt, Paul Thomas. Figure 20.3 Miao Xiaochun, The Last Judgement in Cyberspace—The Side View (2006), c-print, 320 × 120 cm. 352 Martin Constable and Adele Tan.
Ecocinema Theory and Practice

There are points of connection between these approaches, especially Sean Cubitt's and my own, and the “ecological” film theory of Anderson and Anderson (see Anderson, Joseph D. and Barbara Fisher Anderson.
Relive: Media Art Histories

Victimless Leather is an artistic example of what philosopher Nicole Karafyllis calls a biofact—a neologism that fuses the artifact and bios—the central characteristic of growing is induced through technical treatment.
Timeshift: On Video Culture

Focusing on the aesthetics of video, Timeshift tests current semiotic, postmodernist and psychoanalytic approaches in the laboratory of real-life video viewing.
The Cinema Effect

A history of images in motion that explores the"special effect" of cinema.
Meta/data: A Digital Poetics

Blending artist theory, personal memoir, satire, and fictional narratives, a noted net artist constructs a poetics of net art that parallels his practice. This rich collection of writings by pioneering...
Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow: American Indian Music. University of Oklahoma Press. Hearne, Joanna. 2012. Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western. Albany: SUNY Press. Hennepin Theatre Trust. 2022.
Timeshift: On Video Culture

Focusing on the aesthetics of video, Timeshift tests current semiotic, postmodernist and psychoanalytic approaches in the laboratory of real-life video viewing.
Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritiqe from Hollywood to the Mass Image

An original take on Anthropocene anxieties and technological paranoia, the text proposes that the digital humanities still need the traditional skills of close reading to understand our contemporary condition.
Ecomedia: Key Issues

The book includes contributions from a combination of new voices and well-established media scholars from across the globe who examine the basic concepts and key issues of ecomedia studies.
Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritiqe from Hollywood to the Mass Image

... machines, material processes, that, as Marx taught us, are comprised of dead labour. The ancestors that Benjamin ... ancestral knowing. One effect of the aggregation of living and dead labour into the vast machine of contemporary ...
Ecomedia: Key Issues

The book includes contributions from a combination of new voices and well-established media scholars from across the globe who examine the basic concepts and key issues of ecomedia studies.
Simulation and Social Theory

This insightful book is the first to critically examine the ideas of some of the key thinkers of simulation.